Red Hat News - it's probably Classmate

[Robin Laing]

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 18:35 -0500, jack wallen wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>> John Wendel wrote:
>>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 14:54 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
>


>>>
>> i think they are talking about this:
>>
>> http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/red_hat_intel_classmate_pc.html
>>
>> it's basically competition for OLPC.
> ----
> cool...my boss ordered one of the OLPC (on the 2 for 1 deal) and I'm
> looking forward to playing with it. No wonder why redmondmag is
> gloating...Microsoft is pretty much just an interested party anyway.
> 
> Craig
> 

I don't think the Classmate is a direct competitor for the OLPC as it 
requires to much power to keep running.  Not much use in the third world 
where there are no local outlets.

But Microsoft's interest in the OLPC is funny.  They want it redesigned 
with more flash storage and a different SD interface to allow them to 
put a smaller version of WinXP on it.  The version may be just a smart 
terminal server but this is their plan.  Also they have an issue with 
the hardware because all the drivers are open source and they have to 
reverse engineer their own closed source drivers.

There are a few around work here that have ordered the Give one get one 
promotion package.  I am looking forward to getting mine.

I am also reading that these new sub-notebooks (OLPC, Classmate, eeePC) 
are all putting pressure on Microsoft to keep XP in their business 
package.  I really doubt that Microsoft will ever get Vista to work on 
these computers.

-- 
Robin Laing